Data Advisor

GHD Advisory Insights & Analytics team – Data Advisor

Join a global professional services leader, committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation.

We are seeking curious minds with a passion for data-driven problem solving to join and shape our growing Insights & Analytics team. You will support the delivery of innovative solutions across sectors such as rail, highways, telecoms, and future energy, to improve infrastructure for generations to come. 

Your responsibilities will vary across the project lifecycle, with opportunities to contribute to our continuously growing and improving team. We embrace a start-up mentality within a global corporate framework, encouraging fresh ideas and agile thinking. This role provides you with the freedom to explore your interests across diverse projects and sectors, with support and encouragement to develop your skills and experience.

What we do

We help our clients unlock the full potential of their data by combining management and analytical expertise with cutting-edge technology solutions. Our services include:

• Mobility Intelligence: We develop world-class solutions in mobility and logistics using high-volume data sources such as mobile network data. For example, analysing visitor behaviour at major venues and identifying changes in national travel patterns.
• Strategic Modelling: Working alongside industry experts in the built and natural environment, we create models and simulations to understand and forecast complex scenarios, such as England’s transition to a more sustainable agricultural system.
• Analytics Engineering:  We bring the latest in cloud, software, and data best practices to our clients to develop clean and expressive datasets, tightly aligned to their goals and ambitions. 
• Asset Management: We combine our knowledge of the infrastructure lifecycle across industries like water, power, rail, and highways, and our expertise in data-driven insights to help our clients make decisions about the stewardship of their assets.

Your responsibilities:

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Pro-actively engaging with stakeholders to gather information, determine root causes of issues, and develop strong relationships.
• Clear and concise presentation of results and concepts through a variety of mediums, tailoring the level of technical content to the audience.
• Articulating your views and honest perspectives through active listening and engaged participation.

Technical Leadership & Project Delivery

• Providing technical project delivery by designing solutions, writing code, and conducting analysis using Agile principles.
• Using data and operational management techniques to improve operational performance.
• Providing technical feedback to data scientists, identifying opportunities to use data to derive insights and shape technical solutions.
• Acting as Project Manager on appropriate projects.

Team & Business Development

• Actively engaging with team growth activities and operational tasks.
• Identifying and pursuing opportunities and new work that benefit clients, including providing input to tenders and bids.

Continuous Learning & Growth

• Seek out opportunities to improve your technical and non-technical skills, with support from the team.
• Taking a pro-active role in developing the skills of team members.

About you

We would love to hear from you if you can bring proven, demonstrable previous experience in any of the above areas. As a consulting role, we are looking for effective problem solvers, leaders, and communicators.

Personal Characteristics

• You are an effective collaborator and communicator who can work well with a range of clients.
• You are inquisitive and eager to improve and develop your skillset.
• You are comfortable being part of a growing team that is building a business.
• You are an independent thinker who can present their own ideas even when challenging the norm.
• You have an open, inclusive, collaborative working style and understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• You are an analytical thinker with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable chunks.

Previous Experience

Due to the diversity of our projects, a range of skills and experience is beneficial to this role. Whilst a balance of technical and management capabilities is essential, we place a particular emphasis on strong technical expertise. An ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate proven experience in any combination of the following skills, with a priority on the technical areas listed below:

Technical Capabilities

• Strong data manipulation and analysis skills.
• Programming using Python and SQL (additional languages are a benefit).
• Dashboarding using Tableau and/or Power BI and data visualisation using common data science packages (Matplotlib, ggplot2, deck.gl, etc.)
• Understanding of version control (preferably through Git).
• Experience in contributing to and improving technical playbooks.
• Solid knowledge of statistical methods and concepts.

Management Capabilities

• Management consulting expertise, including methodologies, frameworks, tools, and approaches to solve business problems.
• Experience in Business Analytics, using data and statistical analysis to derive insights and make informed decisions.
• Experience in Agile training and effective implementation of Agile principles.
• Clear and detailed client communication, including presentation and storytelling of technical concepts.
• Project Management skills, ensuring projects are delivered on time, in budget, and within scope.
   

About GHD

Being the best that we can be is in our culture.

We are a family of smart, innovative, and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

Our Commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise your achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.

Inclusion is hugely important to us, and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wider variety of benefits to support you, including 25 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working. We will advocate for your profession development and provide access to formal education through the GHD Business School and practical application through technical delivery. We actively promote inclusion and equity focussed initiatives, with the example of our STEMAZING partnership, which offers STEM outreach programmes for women.

Working Location:

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of an average of 2 days per week working at our central London office.

What next?

If shortlisted, our interview approach is a two-way learning experience. We will give you access to the leadership team and technical leads throughout the application process.

For more information about GHD’s Strategic Insights & Analytics offering, case studies and bios of selected team members, visit our page at:

https://www.ghd.com/en/expertise/strategic-insights.aspx

Interested? Apply now. 

Let’s put your ideas into action.

If you see the world differently and are driven by a desire to make real change, together we’ll make it happen. Everybody at GHD has their own commitment, and we’re here to support yours.

Your success is our success, and together we’ll make a lasting impact on our world for generations to come.

Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today. 

See where your commitment could take you.
That’s the #PowerOfCommitment
Who we are 
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.